On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 6:25 PM, Ross Scanlon <[email protected]> wrote: > Whilst it's very usable for regional and remote areas for which there is no > data. There is no justification for joining making admin boundaries into > roads for metro areas particularly where there is Nearmap coverage.
Here are three justifications: - working with overlapping or near-overlapping ways is difficult in some editors (Potlatch, for example) - maintaining two ways is more work than maintaining one - map users will be uncertain where the real administrative boundary is if it appears to follow a road, but has no clearly defined relationship with it. Is the boundary down the middle of the road, on one side, the other, or independent of it? As John Smith has pointed out, actually finding out the real status of the boundary could be a lot of work, but it would be valuable. Steve _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
